Current
>>World Premiere of I'll Get You Back Again at Round House Theatre
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
October 4 — 29, 2017
>>World Premiere of Seder at Hartford Stage
Directed by Elizabeth Williamson
October 19 — November 12 2017
>>Run of Hundred Days at New York Theater Workshop
by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher
Directed by Anne Kauffman
November — December 2017
>>World Premiere of new musical The Lucky Ones at Ars Nova
by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher,
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Spring 2018
commissioned by Ars Nova
>>Commissioned by Second City Theatricals to adapt My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
>>Commissioned by Asolo Rep for the 2018 season
>>Spring 2017: Adjunct Professor at NYU Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing (grad & undergrad)
>>Spring 2017: Guest Artist teaching playwriting at...
- NYU/Playwrights Horizons (undergrad)
- New School (grad)
- ESPA/Primary Stages (professional development)
Recent
>> World Premiere of THE MA NISHTANAH PLAYS
New plays by Susan Bernfield, Sarah Gancher, MJ Kaufman and Shais Rishon
asking what it means to be Jewish now (in this political moment)
Directed by Pironne Yousefzadeh
Dramaturgy by Abigail Katz
presented by the Jewish Plays Project
at the 14th Street Y
June 15th & 17th @ 7 pm
My play is called Shocking But Not Surprising (Megdöbbentő, De Nem Meglepő)
>>In residence at The Orchard Project, June 2017
>>Seder selected as Finalist for Premiere Stages' Play Festival 2017
Staged reading directed by John Wooten
>> NYC premiere of new musical Hundred Days
Music by The Bengsons, book by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher,
directed by Anne Kauffmann
January 2017 at the Public Theatre's Under The Radar Festival
>>I'll Get You Back Again workshop/reading at Seattle Rep
directed by Rachel Chavkin
December 12, 2016 @ 7pm
>>Seder workshop/reading at Hartford Stage
directed by Elizabeth Williamson
November 2016
>>Guest Artist at NYU Tisch/Playwrights Horizons, Fall 2016
>> The Place We Built wins the AR Gurney Prize, May 2016
>> In Residence at Vineyard Arts Project and Ars Nova, June—July 2016
Working on The Lucky Ones with The Bengsons
in collaboration with director Anne Kauffman and choreographer Sonya Tayeh
>> Writing Hundred Days with The Bengsons
>> The Place We Built at The Flea
directed by Danya Taymor
Production extended through May 30 2016
>>Two Honorable Mentions (Top 14.4%) on The Kilroys' 2016 List: I'll Get You Back Again and Seder.
>>In Residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, October 2015
>> Interviewed by Adam Szymkowicz here
>>Four Honorable Mentions on The Kilroys' 2015 List: Duet, I'll Get You Back Again, Seder, and The Place We Built.
>>The Place We Built staged reading in the Women's Voices Theater Festival with Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Staged Reading
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
October 19, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
National Museum of Women in the Arts
>> I'll Get You Back Again in Steppenwolf's First Look Festival
Workshop & staged reading
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
Steppenwolf
August 13, 2015 @ 7 pm
August 15, 2015 @ 8 pm
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Directed by Rachel Chavkin
October 4 — 29, 2017
>>World Premiere of Seder at Hartford Stage
Directed by Elizabeth Williamson
October 19 — November 12 2017
>>Run of Hundred Days at New York Theater Workshop
by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher
Directed by Anne Kauffman
November — December 2017
>>World Premiere of new musical The Lucky Ones at Ars Nova
by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher,
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Spring 2018
commissioned by Ars Nova
>>Commissioned by Second City Theatricals to adapt My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
>>Commissioned by Asolo Rep for the 2018 season
>>Spring 2017: Adjunct Professor at NYU Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing (grad & undergrad)
>>Spring 2017: Guest Artist teaching playwriting at...
- NYU/Playwrights Horizons (undergrad)
- New School (grad)
- ESPA/Primary Stages (professional development)
Recent
>> World Premiere of THE MA NISHTANAH PLAYS
New plays by Susan Bernfield, Sarah Gancher, MJ Kaufman and Shais Rishon
asking what it means to be Jewish now (in this political moment)
Directed by Pironne Yousefzadeh
Dramaturgy by Abigail Katz
presented by the Jewish Plays Project
at the 14th Street Y
June 15th & 17th @ 7 pm
My play is called Shocking But Not Surprising (Megdöbbentő, De Nem Meglepő)
>>In residence at The Orchard Project, June 2017
>>Seder selected as Finalist for Premiere Stages' Play Festival 2017
Staged reading directed by John Wooten
>> NYC premiere of new musical Hundred Days
Music by The Bengsons, book by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher,
directed by Anne Kauffmann
January 2017 at the Public Theatre's Under The Radar Festival
>>I'll Get You Back Again workshop/reading at Seattle Rep
directed by Rachel Chavkin
December 12, 2016 @ 7pm
>>Seder workshop/reading at Hartford Stage
directed by Elizabeth Williamson
November 2016
>>Guest Artist at NYU Tisch/Playwrights Horizons, Fall 2016
>> The Place We Built wins the AR Gurney Prize, May 2016
>> In Residence at Vineyard Arts Project and Ars Nova, June—July 2016
Working on The Lucky Ones with The Bengsons
in collaboration with director Anne Kauffman and choreographer Sonya Tayeh
>> Writing Hundred Days with The Bengsons
>> The Place We Built at The Flea
directed by Danya Taymor
Production extended through May 30 2016
>>Two Honorable Mentions (Top 14.4%) on The Kilroys' 2016 List: I'll Get You Back Again and Seder.
>>In Residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, October 2015
>> Interviewed by Adam Szymkowicz here
>>Four Honorable Mentions on The Kilroys' 2015 List: Duet, I'll Get You Back Again, Seder, and The Place We Built.
>>The Place We Built staged reading in the Women's Voices Theater Festival with Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Staged Reading
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
October 19, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
National Museum of Women in the Arts
>> I'll Get You Back Again in Steppenwolf's First Look Festival
Workshop & staged reading
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
Steppenwolf
August 13, 2015 @ 7 pm
August 15, 2015 @ 8 pm
Click here for Archives
